1. Charles Klein was an English-born playwright and actor who emigrated to America in 1883.
12 Facts About Charles Klein
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Charles Klein began writing by 1890, soon working for producer Charles Frohman.
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Charles Klein wrote melodrama and dramatic plays in the first 15 years of the 20th century.
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Charles Klein drowned during the sinking of the RMS Lusitania in 1915.
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Charles Klein was born in London, England, to Hermann Charles Klein and his wife Adelaide.
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Charles Klein moved to New York City in 1883 and began his theatrical career by appearing in Little Lord Fauntleroy and other juvenile roles such as The Messenger from Jarvis Section and The Romany Rye.
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Charles Klein married actress Lillian Gottlieb in Manhattan on July 10,1888.
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Charles Klein first wrote for the theater in 1890, when he was commissioned to revise The Schatchen, in which he was then appearing.
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Charles Klein came into prominence as a dramatist in 1897 with the Charles Frohman production of Heartsease, of which he was co-author with Joseph I C Clarke, which played long seasons and annual revivals for seven years, starring Henry Miller.
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Charles Klein's melodramas were among the most successful of the first decade of the twentieth century, primarily because of their focus on themes of contemporary life in the United States.
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Charles Klein's best-regarded drama, The Lion and the Mouse, was prompted by a visit to the US Senate.
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Charles Klein died, along with Frohman, during the sinking of the RMS Lusitania in 1915, at the age of 48.